Hartford City Council OKs $450,000 Settlement in Police Brutality Case
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Hartford’s city council has agreed to a $450,000 settlement to be paid to a man who was beaten by police in a case of mistaken identity in 2004, ending his professional football career.
The settlement comes nearly three years after a federal grand jury awarded Tylon Outlaw, now 44 and the head football coach at Bloomfield High School, $450,000 in compensatory damages.
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“He crossed the street to exchange Christmas greetings and pleasantries with everyone when Officer Allen mistook Outlaw for someone else. He was beaten with a baton and hit in his head multiple times,” DiCrosta said. (occurred in 2004)
Allen retired in 2018.
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